CRM 370, Worksheet #2 (12 points)

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PLEASE TYPE YOUR ANSWERS ON THIS SHEET – no handwritten assignments. This is due in class Nov 24th. You may also turn it in to my mailbox in the dept.anytime before class. DO NOT EMAIL IT TO ME – hardcopy only. Late worksheets will be marked down.

Answers to the following questions should be in your own words. Do NOT cut and paste large portions of text. If you use direct quotes, make sure they have quotation marks around them. You can work together to discuss answers, but each person should type their own answers into the worksheet.

From the class webpage or this sheet, go to the Vera Institute of Justice’s report, Sentencing and Prison Practices in Germany and the Netherlands: Implications for the United States.

  1. In February 2013, participants of the European-American Prison Project visited Germany and the Netherlands.

a)What states were represented?

b)What was the goal?

  1. The overall imprisonment rate in the US, including jail and the federal population is what?

______per 100,000 population. Germany has a rate of ______per 100,000 and the Netherlands has a rate of ______per 100,000.

  1. A) The German and Dutch systems are both organized around what two central tenants? (Please include the two key terms.)

B)What does Germany’s Prison Act say?

C) What does the Netherlands 1998 Penitentiary Principles Act say.

  1. One American visitor commented while visiting a German prison, “If you treat inmates like human, they will [write in the rest of the quote]
  1. In Germany, how long is the training for correctional staff?

What type of classes does it include?

  1. Both Germany and the Netherlands rely on what kind of primary response to drug use? What is the approach and what does it mean?
  1. How many of the states that saw a Mother-Child unit were interested in developing one?

What happens to children now, and why is there interest in developing them?